Workforce Development

If you’re thinking about you or your child’s future, when it comes to educational requirements, here’s what those surveyed say to expect in three to five years:

"Many private-sector businesses and jobs in our state trace their existence or success to the $200 million worth of competitive research conducted annually on university campuses in Montana. The fact that Siemens PLM Software sees the potential here is a compliment to what we’re accomplishing in Montana."

Experts say the program could serve as a national model for employers needing skilled workers yesterday and many jobless Americans unable to spend two years earning an associate degrees.

 Flathead Valley Community College was awarded over $3 million in federal grants last week to help develop and expand training programs in this part of the state, including short-term certificate programs in advanced manufacturing.

Those who fail to earn a high school diploma typically end up at the low end of the economic spectrum, the new report said, and they have only a small chance of breaking out of poverty down the road.

The program will create a centralized, online application system that will give students free access to paid summer internships.

MSU’s Extended University offers several non-credit courses this fall that help working professionals learn business and home office software.

All Missoula businesses are encouraged to attend and contribute to the conversation!

An expert in invention and entrepreneurship who has forgotten more about both than most people know recently used this line in a room of economic development professionals: "Increasingly, there is no room in America for the unskilled."

Money will help college respond to needs of manufacturing industry